Allophone Definition & Meaning
allophone
- noun
- (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
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- What does allophone mean?
- (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
- What part of speech is allophone?
- Allophone is a noun.